Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are ...

Major upgrades to greenhouses at the Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement ushers a new era of plant research at Texas A&M AgriLife.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that plant scientists have teamed with manufacturing systems engineers at the lab .... ...

Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the ...

To meet the growing demand for faster scientific discovery that strengthens the bioeconomy, plant scientists worked with manufacturing systems engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge ...

Gene editing has enormous potential to help feed the world’s growing population, but it’s currently difficult, time-consuming ...

Protein discovered that helps crops resist drought and prevent future global agricultural losses worth millions.

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

Celery is a good choice for this. Add water to a large water glass. Cut 2 inches off the base of a store-bought celery bunch. Stick toothpicks around the base and immerse the bottom of the bunch in ...

The breakthrough, headed by Walter Gassmann and Jianbin Su, is the first step in better suiting plants for unstable weather.

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

As your News Feature notes, effective science communication is needed in the face of funding cuts (see Nature 645, 298–300; 2025). Yet art–science collaborations — a great way to communicate the value ...